Motivational Quotes

Humor

Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

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Best Quotes about Humor

What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

Jeph Jacques

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Albee, Edward

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

La Bruyere, Jean De

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Irving, Washington

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Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

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Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Smith, Alfred E.

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Hughes, Langston

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Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

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One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

Proverb, Chinese

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Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Diller, Phyllis

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

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A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Strachey, Lionel

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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.

Clark, Dick

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Herold, Don

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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

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The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Socrates

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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

Rourke, Constance

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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Muir, Frank

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Borge, Victor

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Colby, Frank Moore

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Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

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There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

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Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Martin, Steve

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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Kleiser, Grenville

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Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

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If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.

David Nicholls